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Who's the Most Underrated Player in Baseball?
by Carson Cistulli
Answer: Denard Span.
By one definition, at least.
If FanGraphs has one overriding purpose, it's not, as some readers might think, to render everyone dateless. Rather, it's to constantly ask — and attempt to answer — questions about baseball. And one of the most basic questions we ask is, "How much is [insert player's name] worth?"
The answers are often surprising. Like, for example, two years ago, when Wins Above Replacement suggested that Ben Zobrist was the second-most valuable position player in baseball. Or how, by that same metric, we learn who's been the real MVP in Philadelphia for the better part of the last decade.
People who read FanGraphs with some frequency have likely become accustomed to — and, hopefully, appreciate — the discrepancies between our valuation methods and more traditional ones. And those who read the site have also probably become familiar with the ways in which things like defense, positional adjustments and (now!) baserunning can affect a player's value in sometimes dramatic ways.
Accordingly, readers probably have a sense of which players, specifically, are under- and overrated. Ben Zobrist? Generally underrated. Ryan Howard? If not overrated, per se, it's certainly the case that he's not flying under the radar.
There are a lot of connotations to these terms under– and overrated. The market in which a player plays and the salary he makes are certainly factors. The largest part of it, though, generally has to do with how he performs in what we might call the "fantasy stats." Watch any but the most enlightened baseballing telecasts, and you will still be confronted by graphics sporting a player's batting average, home runs, and RBIs. Along with those graphics, you'll hear the voices of broadcasters (again, generally) quoting all the above, plus runs and stolen bases — and a whole bunch of other things, like batting average with runners in scoring position, that fail to address the real production of the player in question.
Me and you and most everyone we know are aware that a lot of those numbers are either heavily dependent on context (runs, RBI), prone to great variance in even season-long samples (batting average), or misunderstood in terms of risk versus reward (stolen bases) — and my guess is that most of us are able to mentally adjust and say, "Well, sure, he's got a lot of RBIs, but his on-base skills are sub-par."
This being FanGraphs, however, I wondered if it might be possible to measure how underrated a player is.
In what follows, I document my attempt to do just that.
In terms of measuring a player's "true" value, the closest thing we have is WAR. Because batting average and defense, etc., require pretty large samples to become reliable — and because a player's true talent is changing incrementally all the time, anyway — WAR isn't perfect, but it does a lot of things well. For the purposes of "rating" players in this endeavor, therefore, I've used WAR.
In terms of measuring "perceived" value, what I did was take a player's production in the five most-common fantasy categories (average, home runs, runs, RBIs and stolen bases) and put them on the WAR scale*. To do that, I found each player's z-score (i.e. standard deviations from the mean) in each of those categories. I then added together the z-scores and multiplied that sum by a constant (in this case, 0.375) to give the z-scores the same range as the one on the WAR leaderboard. To each of these adjusted z-scores, I added the current (as of this past Friday, when I ran the numbers) average WAR of 1.18 (again, for qualified players only). This produced a number — I've called FAN — which is essentially like WAR, except it uses the five aforementioned categories. No defense. No positional adjustments. Nothing else.
*I've picked these numbers not because they're the fantasy stats, necessarily. Rather, it seems the fantasy stats became fantasy stats because they were already a popular means to assessing value.
From there, I took the difference between each player's WAR and his FAN. The larger the positive difference, the more underrated — that is, the more stuff that doesn't show up in the fantasy categories.
Here are the results (again, including only qualified batters as of this past Friday):
• Positional adjustment (or the lack of it) definitely play a huge role here. On this list are six catchers, 3.5 shortstops (with Maicer Izturis being the half), and four center fielders. Of the 20 players on the list, only Jack Cust has spent much time on the right side of the defensive spectrum.
• Beyond the positional adjustment, a number of these players also appear on the UZR leaderboard, too. To wit: Span (1st, 10.9 UZR), Howie Kendrick (2nd, 7.6) and Alexei Ramirez (3rd, 7.2).
• Team context also seems to inform these rankings, as poor offenses allow fewer opportunities for scoring and for driving in runs. We see a number of players from the league's lowest-scoring teams: Cameron Maybin (Padres), Span (Twins), Cust (Mariners), Brendan Ryan (Mariners), Ronny Cedeno (Pirates) — and Peter Bourjos, Izturis and Kendrick, who all are from the Angels.
As for the other term I invoke above (i.e. overrated), that's a slightly different proposition. While the method I've employed here certainly can isolate the players whose fantasy-type numbers compare (more than) favorably relative to their WAR, it also makes sense that managers would put their best players in a position to drive in and score runs — and that players with higher averages and home-run totals would, in fact, likely have more runs scored and RBIs.
Accordingly, instead of referring to the players on this next list as overrated, we might more accurately say that they're the least underrated players currently. It's both a distinction and a difference, I promise.
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Great stuff, Cistulli. Reminds me of something I did a few years ago, if anyone's interested. Basically, I put offensive runs above replacement on the RBI scale and compared players' actual RBIs to value "RBIs". Filed under "some things never change", Ryan Howard and Jeff Francoeur were most overrated by traditional RBIs, accumulating about 70 more than their overall product deserves. Hanley and Pujols each deserved about 50 more.
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And then I added in defense (position + fielding): http://goo.gl/qRHOn


No, I do not believe that there are aliens in existence. Now that science has evolved, we have come to the surface, Mars, Mars .... etc. But in those places there is no life, where the alien lives. And why can not we reach them? So I do not believe there are aliens in existence.
How does that work? You are justifying your belief in aliens based on a paradox about how we can't see any and totally should if they existed. At least if aliens were anything like us in the way they developed.
Possible. But then the aliens wouldn't be very interested in making sure the population knows about them. Because if they were the governments wouldn't be able to stop them. Especially if it was aliens with spaceships and not only a distant message of some kind.
Why not? The universe is infinite!
Sathoshi Nakamoto was an alien!
I do not believe in planetary people as real, if real aliens I think we humans have long discovered. Today we have discovered the moon, Mars .... all the planets. But in those places there is no life.
do not believe. from early times the emergence of technology up to this point have been very forward there has never been proof that aliens exist. of course, this indicates it's just hoax only.
It's very hard to reject existing of aliens because universe is endless and somewhere we can find life.
I don't really believe in that, I believe is one of those stories they normally tell kids when they are small.
Of course, other people's real! What is the probability that among a million galaxies in which millions of stars can theoretically be the same planets as the Earth and on which it appeared when that life? I think it's very big!)) We just rarely see them because they are smarter and do not much want to visit us!
Well yes there are so many proofs that the alien is true try to search to it some in deep web that proofs that alien is true, aliens in area 51 that the alien aircraft is there some of pictures in the deep web supports it some people known support it some of the video supports it, but of course we can't always say that alien are true cause not all of the evidences are true but me i believe on it.
You talk about "believing" in aliens like people who say they believe in God. No hard scientific evidence of life outside Earth has been found yet. It's reasonable however to believe there's a high probability of the existence of extraterrestrial life just like you'll have a high chance of winning the lottery if you have several million tickets at your disposal.
I do not believe in aliens because I do not see aliens so I should not believe it. But many believe in the aliens even though they do not see it I have nothing to do with the believers, as long as I do not believe it because I have never seen aliens.
I do believe even if i didn't even witnessed it with my own two eyes. The possibility is very high and to think that there are many galaxies existing in the universe, there is also a higher chance that foreign people, or extra-terrestrial beings also existed. Also i even think that maybe aliens also consider us other beings us alien, and also maybe they are already conducting experiment to see of there would be other life forms existing outside their galaxy or planet.


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Øyvind Paasche
Ideas as Infrastructure
28 January 2020 | doi:10.5281/zenodo.3626196 | 1 Comment
Øyvind Paasche on the immaterial kinds of infrastructure in science and the fundamental role of trust, transparency and openness.
The infrastructures that natural sciences run on are many and varied. A mixed garden of tailormade instruments and laboratories designed to handle highly specific tasks. Some are placed in weather-beaten areas like the Mauna Kea Observatories on Hawaii enabling us to connect our own place in the immenseness of the Universe to superclusters like Laniakea and Virgo, whereas others are located deep below ground exploring the very fabric of light by trying to trap neutrinos. Some are costly and quite a few are ingeniously constructed. Examples are numerous.
It can be drilling equipment. Designed to retrieve pristine material from a remote ice cap or the deep-sea floor. This simple(!) form of infrastructure has facilitated research that has returned invaluable information to our societies. They include 800 000 years of global CO2 observations (1), millions of years with sea surface temperatures (2) or a unique 300-year window of net primary productivity in the North Atlantic (3). Empirical data that, as of now, cannot be produced in any other way.
Drilling equipment apart. There are other types of infrastructure that has a more immediate, vital character. Progress made the year I was born count successful imaging of a clam with the help of nuclear magnetic resonance, a terminology that with time decayed into magnetic resonance imaging or MRI if you prefer.
Paul Lauterbur, the single author behind a seminal paper published in the journal Nature that very year ends on an optimistic and bold note: «Zeugmatographic techniques should find many useful applications in studies of the internal structures, states, and compositions of microscopic objects.» If that was his dream, it certainly developed well. His greekifed concept for MRI – Zeugmatography – did not. Other stellar infrastructures worthwhile mentioning could include space stations, cyclotrons or the World Wide Web, but I don't think we need to exhaust the list of critical infrastructures, as the point has already been made: infrastructure is critical for science.
Many of us know of, if not about these infrastructures as they stand out like roads, tunnels and bridges in buzzing cities. They define research in the eyes and the minds of the public. Think about it. What do people associate with science? I suspect that the first image to materialize is a human being in a white lab coat. More often than before, with a pair of protective plastic glasses. In other words, science equals labs and labs equal infrastructure.
And I for one, love labs. In some sense it's where I was raised in academia. A lab is such a natural place for science to unfold; measurements are made continuously, samples are prepared, sometimes cultivated, always tested and everything is meticulously documented. A second lab, 10 000 or 1 mile away can do the same test runs, the same experiments in order to check reproducibility and/or to complement initial measurements. And by doing so, science can transcend all kinds of barriers in a pursuit of finding something out, which is the quintessence of science.
The other research infrastructure
But by focusing solely on hard infrastructure, we are missing the point – or rather – that there are other forms of infrastructure entirely. A type that we always carry with us. Safely stored inside of every scientist, and in their relations to each other, and with society. Ideas, the lifegiving building blocks of science!
Ideas are fuel for science. And then there are some ideas or concepts representing core values that science arguably depends on. The pillars that keep the roof in place. They also constitute a type of infrastructure albeit differently than laboratories, research vessels and botanical gardens. I count words like 'trust', 'openness', 'inclusiveness', 'integrity' and 'community'. There are obviously others too. Perhaps you have favorite too that define, constrain and realize the field of science that preoccupy you? Here is a justification of mine.
Trust is such an integral part of science and perhaps so obvious that it's easy to forget when discussing how we progress and make discoveries. If you have trust in your group, in your team, at your institute you have one of the most important assets in place.
If you don't trust your data, conclusions will never be reached.
If you don't trust your peers, reviews will be rendered useless.
If you don't trust your colleagues, you cannot tap into the most important resource (freely) available to you.
If you don't trust your students, how can they themselves become researchers?
If there isn't room for trust, communities will degrade and bitterness will prevail. Trust is pivotal and a cornerstone in science.
Openness has always followed and guided science from its very inception either in accounting for how your experiment initially was set up, how the codes were designed or just discussing your thoughts and observations with colleagues. In our data-driven reality, openness or transparency is of critical importance to science.
Science is, however, not only carried out by universities and research institutes obliged to share the data they generate. Private industry and national agencies carry out research on an almost unfathomable scale, but data and insights that they produce are often, and for various reasons, unavailable to the public. This can be a democratic challenge, and it deserves, in my opinion, more attention that it currently receives from media and decision-makers alike.
Inclusiveness. Science, sadly, has a poor record of inclusiveness which in effect has debilitated us from performing cutting-edge research. For the longest time science was a place for well-off white men only. This has gradually changed, and for each fence that has been torn down we have become a more diversified and richer community. In science you will always be judged and evaluated, but that should always be on your factual merits not your background, your dialect or language, sexual orientation, skin color or political preference. If research is to bring insight and innovations to society's grand table, we need to be inclusive and we need to treat people fairly and with respect. We're all different, and diversity is one of our greatest assets. If we can be bold enough to not merely welcome it, but also defend it whenever it is challenged, I believe we've come a long way.
Integrity. What is integrity in science? It relates to the way you perform or conduct your research. Can your experiments and results be reproduced? Interpretation of data should always be as objective as possible and not be governed by secondary motives. Moreover, the scientific processes that have been involved in reaching the conclusions in question should always be transparent and intelligible. To me, integrity is also about how you treat students and peers at your workplace. In that sense, integrity and community are interlinked bridging several levels of life in science.
Community. Everyday life in science can be a lonely enterprise. The daylight hours spent in the basement, a location that house many a buzzing lab, can easily tip into something which is not entirely sustainable. Even so, there's usually others working in the same lab or someone else doing something similar somewhere else. Said differently, our identity as scientists is community-based. The loose structures that surround us are, for some reason, easy to forget during routine activities and consequently our ownership to the community we subscribe to is periodically weak. This can quickly change. Together with Henning Åkesson, presently at Stockholm University, I wrote a letter of support to US colleagues. We called it "The Nordic Letter on Climate Action and Scientific Integrity" and within a few weeks we had roughly 500 signatures, the support was overwhelming (4). It was also a manifestation of a community.
There are good reasons to be attentive of science's position in society because it reflects back on how it is to be a scientist, and what is expected of you. In recent years, science have come under attack in many countries (which is very worrisome far beyond these brackets). In Europe, dire reports are coming from Hungary and Turkey about how science and scientists are mistreated. In the US, the Trump administrations has repeatedly demonstrated that our freedom and respected position should not be taken for granted. Standing upright when your results and conclusions and/or your intentions are not only questioned but actively sought to undermine you, your moral stamina will be put to test. Integrity is a quality most will claim to have intact but the game changes when you have to defend it.
A note on the side. I encourage engaged readers to visit the homepage of Union of Concerned Scientists every now and then, if you want to stay updated not only on how the Trump Administration actively undermine science's position, but also how one can respond as a community. The pressure on science has raised the awareness and importance of integrity and to some extent galvanized US science communities.
Having said that, the Trump Administration's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is not just a devastating blow for international efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gasses, but it is also an attack on climate science and climate scientists.
To me, the ideas highlighted here – trust, openness, inclusiveness, integrity and community – are my favorite stars on Science's vast firmament, words we should use for navigation and inspiration. They are perhaps the single most important infrastructure in Science.
The ideas presented here are my own and do not necessarily represent the organizations I'm affiliated with.
(1) Brook, E.J. & Buizert, C. (2018) Antarctic and global climate history viewed from ice cores, Science, Vol 558, 200-208.
(2) Herbert, T.D., Peterson, L.C., Lawrence, K.T., & Liu, Z. (2010) Tropical Ocean Temperatures Over the Past 3.5 Million Years, Science, Vol 328, 1530-1534.
(3) Osman, M.B., Das, S.B., Trusel, L.D., Evans, E.J., Fischer, H., Grieman, M.M., Kipfstuhl, S., McConnell, J.R. & Saltzman, E.S. (2018). Industrial-era decline in subarctic Atlantic productivity, Nature, Vol 569, 551-555.
(4) Paasche, Ø., and H. Åkesson (2019), Let's start teaching scientists how to withstand attacks on fact, Eos, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO118499.
Elena	on 6 February 2020 at 14:26
How about developing this line of thinking further in terms of "imaginaries" as infrastructures in science and society that can travel between and across various domains? See https://sts.univie.ac.at/en/details-news-events/news/imaginaries-as-infrastructures/
+ forty eight = fifty four
Øyvind Paasche has a long-term interest in past and present climate change and dynamics, polar regions included. During later years, he has developed a keen interest in how scientific data are handled, used and understood by actors outside academia. He is both a Senior Adviser and Senior Scientist with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and NORCE Climate. Prior to his present engagement, he was the leader of the Bergen Marine Research Cluster (2011-2016).
He has authored and co-authored around 30 studies in international peer-reviewed journals, co-edited the book The New Arctic, published in 2015 by Springer. He has also co-authored a book on how the climate system works called What is Climate? (in Norwegian) as well as being a contributing author to the 4th IPPC report (The Physical Science Basis). Paasche leads several ongoing projects such as Ocean Outlook (2016-20), Hordaflom (2017-2020), Advanced Climate Education and Research (2018-2021) and is also a member of Seasonal Forecasting Engine (2018-2021).
He is part of the team running the well-known summer school Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses (ACDC) and is currently the Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee for the international initiative known as the Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS).
Paasche, Ø. (2020). Ideas as Infrastructure. Elephant in the Lab. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3626196

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Patients who lose 10% of their body weight within 6 months of diagnosis of pre-diabetes may reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 85% over the next 3 years, according to findings from a large nationwide study published online ahead of print in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
"Even modest weight loss at 6 months (eg, 3%-5%) decreases diabetes risk significantly," said lead author Nisa Maruthur, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. The findings can be used to guide escalation of preventive efforts, she said. "Depending on fasting glucose and weight loss at 6 months with lifestyle change, metformin could be considered for some patients—for example, patients who do not have success losing weight and whose fasting glucose remains elevated," Dr. Maruthur added.
"Since health care providers see their patients at least annually, not every 3 years, this information is significant since this data reveals the benefits of early intervention," commented Amy Hess-Fischl, CDE, RD, a diabetes educator and program coordinator for the Teen and Adolescent Diabetes Transition Program at the University of Chicago's Kovler Diabetes Center.
In addition to showing that greater weight loss at 6 months predicts decreased 3 year diabetes risk, the findings also suggest that "achievement of fasting blood glucose <100 mg/dL at 6 months (ie, a normal glucose level) is beneficial regardless of weight loss," Ms. Hess-Fischl said. "So, this data reveals that the health care providers can help the patient have a bigger impact on long-term reduction if they are more aggressive with reducing blood glucose and weight in the first 6 months," she added.
The researchers analyzed data from 3,041 overweight adults with hyperglycemia enrolled in the Diabetes Prevention Program. The patients were randomized to intense lifestyle intervention, metformin (850 mg twice daily) plus standard lifestyle recommendation, or placebo plus standard lifestyle recommendation and were followed for an average of 2.8 years.
Patients in the lifestyle intervention group had an exercise goal of ≥150 minutes a week and received counseling, including an individualized 16-lesson curriculum covering diet, exercise, and behavior modification. The counseling was given on an individual basis for the first year and in a group setting thereafter.
The incidence of diabetes was 4.8, 7.8, and 11.0 cases per 100 person-years in the lifestyle intervention, metformin, and placebo groups, respectively. The intervention was linked to a 58% reduction in incidence of diabetes compared with placebo and metformin was linked to a 31% reduction, with the intervention being significantly more effective than metformin (P<0.001).
In the intervention group, 50% achieved the goal of a ≥7% weight loss at 1 year and 37% did so at the last followup visit (average, 2.8 years). The average weight loss was significantly greater in the intervention group (5.6 kg) than in the metformin (2.1 kg) or placebo groups (0.1 kg; P<0.001).
Given that the analysis involved data from the Diabetes Prevention Program, "this is gold standard information," Ms. Hess commented. "The only weakness is that it is retrospective data," she said.
"Physicians can look at our study to see what the impact of weight loss and fasting glucose at 6 months might be on their patients' longer-term diabetes risk. Our study also gives physicians numbers that they can use in conversations with their patients regarding their diabetes risk," Dr. Maruthur said.


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VILLA RENATA in Riccione
The apartments of Villa Renata
Gran Sasso apartment with garden
Availability and prices of apartments
Villa and apartments for rent in Riccione for the 2022 season and new year 2023
The history of Villa Renata
My grandmother, Mrs. Renata Bedetti in Gabbriellini, bought a part of land that belonged to the Mattioli counts after the war with her mother's left, with a few lire. Being one of the first women to have graduated in architecture in Italy and to have obtained the driving license D, she made the design of the villa very different from how you see it today. I have many variations and after several discernments the result of the final design was what you can admire today.
In 1973 she began construction of the cottage, which she finished in 1977. She spent almost 37.000 Italian lire to build it, which is unbelievable 🙂
Today after almost 40 years, a lot has changed, but the grandmother's initial design is pretty much the same as the original, only minor changes and improvements have been made since then. The trees, on the other hand, have grown quite a lot, including the cedar of Lebanon that dominates the house.
At the beginning, the ground floor apartment was for our family use while the attics were rented to pilots of the American Air Force based at the large Miramare di Rimini airport, back here. Wonderful memories bind me to that period, when I got on the giant Fords or the Dodges parked outside or when I went to the military airport to see the F16s fly with my grandmother and the pilots of the base. Then the Americans left and the Italian military came, first of the Italian Air Force and then of the Italian Army.
In the meantime, the spirit of the villa has always been that of a sea port where, over the years, many people, friends, acquaintances, friends of friends during barbecues or evenings, guests of the tenants, in short, a large family, cheerful, carefree and always far ahead with both homework and technology.
After a series of events the cottage was no longer lived in by my family on a regular basis, but always requested by friends who wanted to spend a few days by the sea in Riccione.
For the past seven years ..
Hence the idea of making the apartments available to those who so wish. Renting the apartments per day, week or short periods to families and groups of kids right on the wave of new technologies that allow the sharing of apartments and their review was an idea to keep the cottage alive and well-kept, which otherwise would have gone in abandonment.
The experience was immediately fascinating, both for the amount of people hosted and their fascinating diversity. We stayed in close contact with several guests, as it happened to go out together in the evening for Riccione and have long chats in front of a good glass of wine in the garden or go sailing and discuss every aspect of life, but also physics 🙂
In the meantime, I am always around, back and forth, almost condemned to wander on land and sea without stopping, but always reachable by phone and often also in Riccione.
I hope to have you as guests in Riccione in one of my apartments.
Stephen Kleckner
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709 Crackdown
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The Honorable John F. Kerry
2201 C St NW
Via Fax: 2026472283; 2026477350
The Honorable Jacob J. Lew
U.S. Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Dear Secretary Kerry and Secretary Lew,
As the Administration prepares for its final US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue (S&ED), which will convene in Beijing June 6-8, 2016, we urge you to use this opportunity to call on the Chinese government to withdraw legislation it has adopted that denies human rights to citizens of the People's Republic of China. Further, we urge the United States to make a strong public statement expressing the U.S. government's deep concern about the human rights situation in China, and publicly call on the Chinese government to release all individuals who have been unjustly imprisoned or disappeared for peacefully expressing their fundamental human rights.
The downward slide of human rights and rule of law in China since Xi Jinping became president is well documented. The State Department noted this trend in its most recent annual human rights report on China: "Repression and coercion markedly increased during the year against organizations and individuals involved in civil and political rights advocacy and public interest and ethnic minority issues."
We applaud the U.S. government for taking the lead on the joint statement issued by 12 countries at the 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council in March, expressing concern about China's deteriorating human rights record. As China becomes increasingly aggressive and dismissive of the rules-based international order, it is imperative that the U.S. confront Beijing as robustly on the universality of human rights as it does on cybersecurity or the South China Sea. Few aspects of the bilateral relationship can fully succeed unless Chinese authorities respect the free flow of information, remove the judiciary from Communist Party control, and tolerate peacefully expressed ideas, no matter how critical of the Party-state. Moreover, Chinese authorities' increasing proclivity to carry out abuses beyond China's borders stands to further complicate ties.
Therefore, we urge you to build on the momentum of the March joint statement, and press forcefully on human rights in this high-profile and wide-ranging diplomatic gathering.
Specifically, we urge that you:
Meet with human rights defenders and representatives of China's civil society, including Uyghurs and Tibetans and individuals from other ethnic minority communities and religious groups, as President Obama did recently in Vietnam. If such a meeting is not possible during the S&ED, commit publicly to a meeting outside China with representatives of those communities.
Explain unequivocally to your Chinese counterparts that China's new National Security Law, Counterterrorism Law, and Foreign NGO Management Law will obstruct bilateral cooperation on a range of issues, from law enforcement cooperation to various "people-to-people" programs. Press the Chinese government to either withdraw these laws, or at a minimum, substantially revise them to bring them into compliance with international human rights standards, and stress that the U.S. opposes all carve-outs (i.e., exemptions from the restrictive law only for activities that the Chinese government deems "acceptable," for example, in the areas of education, health, etc.).
As the U.S. did in the March joint statement at the Human Rights Council, publicly call for the release of specific individuals detained for peacefully exercising their rights. While there are thousands of such individuals detained, disappeared, or subjected to unlawful "house arrest," we include here a handful who represent particular communities that have been targeted: press freedom advocate Guo Feixiong (aka Yang Maodong), who went on a hunger strike in May to protest his lack of adequate medical care and abusive and degrading treatment by prison authorities; more than 20 human rights lawyers, such as Wang Yu and Li Heping, formally arrested for crimes including "subversion of state power" and "inciting subversion of state power" as a result of the July 9, 2015 crackdown on rights lawyers; Ilham Tohti, prominent Ugyhur economist and writer serving a life sentence, and a finalist for this year's prestigious Martin Ennals Human Rights Award; Liu Xiaobo, political reform advocate and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner; Thabkhe (aka Thamkey) Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist monk imprisoned since 2008, who is now severely ill; and Yang Hua, a house church pastor in Guiyang. We also ask that you press the Chinese government to allow veteran journalist Gao Yu, who has been released from prison but is in poor health, to travel to Germany to seek necessary medical treatment for heart disease and other conditions.
Publicly express the United States' concerns about restrictions on religious freedom and belief that contravene international law and the Chinese constitution. Tell your counterparts that the Chinese government must cease demolishing churches, tearing down crosses, forcing Falun Gong adherents to renounce their faith, and preventing certain Chinese citizens from gathering to worship or meditate. The vaguely worded counterterrorism and national security laws will give Chinese authorities yet another tool to criminally prosecute Uyghur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists for virtually any manifestation of religious and cultural beliefs, in contravention of international human rights law.
Publicly express the United States' concerns about restrictions on freedom of expression in China, ranging from the Great Firewall to the Communist Party's tight control over media outlets and the harassment and jailing of independent journalists. China ranks 176 out of 180 countries on Reporters Without Borders' 2016 World Press Freedom Index and ranks in last place in Freedom House's 2015 Freedom on the Net report. We urge the U.S. to continue advocating forcefully for American journalists' access to and freedom inside China, and ask that it also do so for Chinese journalists.
Call on your Chinese counterparts to explain the legal basis on which their agents detained Swedish national Gui Minhai in Thailand, Hong Kong citizen Lee Bo in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong citizens Lui Por, Cheung Chi Ping, and Lam Wing Kee in the mainland. Explain that these detentions—along with other commentary from senior Chinese officials disregarding key aspects of the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law—will have serious consequences for Beijing with respect to global perceptions of its willingness to adhere to binding treaty obligations. Reiterate the United States' commitment to the right to meaningful public participation in government, directly or through freely chosen representatives, in Hong Kong and in the mainland.
Press Chinese counterparts to include an explicit and robust human rights component in future S&EDs, and the U.S. delegation should report publicly, ideally from Beijing, which human rights issues and specific cases were raised during the S&ED.
We appreciate your consideration of the concerns raised here, and stand ready to assist as needed. We also encourage you to conduct an assessment of the "whole of government" approach with respect to the S&ED and U.S. China policy more broadly since 2009, and identify areas to build upon for the benefit of future Administrations, as the U.S. will face an increasingly complex relationship with China in the years ahead.
T. Kumar
International Advocacy Director
Amnesty International USA
Bob Fu
President and Founder
China Aid
Sharon Hom
China Director
Dr. Yang Jianli
Initiatives for China
Matteo Mecacci
International Campaign for Tibet
Delphine Halgand
US Director
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Uyghur Human Rights Project
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Sarah Jane Humke | The life of a traveling, reading, writing, spining and knitting shepherdess.
First off, there was a lovely book all about Shetland Sheep. It's a lovely book and I would strongly suggest it to folks looking to learn more about the breed.
My friend had gotten it signed by the authors for me and there was even a little cartoon!
She also sent a PERFECT birthday card for me!
On the inside is says, "Ewe are shear perfection. Happy Birthday!" So perfect for me!!!
There was also a tea towel from Shetland Wool Week 2018. I had been unable to get one of these so it was wonderful to get one. I loved the design with the shepherdess and the super happy sheep on it. It won't get used for tea, or any other kitchen messes for that matter!
There were buttons and brooches and soap. The sheep brooch is felted wool.
And keeping this all safe and cozy in it's box were two batches of wool both dyed with indigo. The lighter of the two is a mix of Kent Romney and Shetland and the darker is White Faced Woodland.
My birthday isn't until the end of January, so it was a bit of a surprise to get such a lovely present so soon. Thank you Veronica!
My miniature dachshund, Weezy, is almost 14. She's not elderly by dachshund standards, but she's definitely getting up there. Like many older beings, she often needs to potty in the middle of the night. It's not every night, but a couple of nights each week, she wakes me up in order to go outside at about 1:45 in the morning.
My bedroom is on the second floor, so I usually carry her down the stairs (stairs aren't good for dachshunds backs) and let her do her business outside. Weezy isn't the fastest wee in the west, so it usually takes a little bit for her to let me know that she needs to be let back in. Now, I know that looking at my phone in the middle of the night disrupts my circadian cycle with the blue light intrusion into my sleeping time. Awake me is well aware of the issues surrounding phone usage in the middle of the night. However, this logic doesn't extend to middle of the night me and I grab for my phone like a junkie needing a hit. My logical brain knows that this is a bad idea but the less evolved part of it whispers, "what if there's an emergency?" and at 2am, this logic is unassailable .
This is me, at work, feeling like a pretty, pretty princess.
No, a tiara is possibly not the most logical purchase that I have ever made, but I guess 2 am Sarah really wanted one. And who am I to argue?
I had another small package in the mail, this one not from Amazon. It was from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. in Missouri. I have longed to order seeds from the company for some time as I ADORE their catalog. However, I've never actually pulled the trigger on ordering them as I just couldn't justify it to myself. However, my friend Tini in Germany seems to have read my mind (or perhaps we are just of similar minds) and gotten me some seeds from them for my Christmas/Birthday present.
I have had some excellent mail as of late!
For those that do not know, I was working on my master's degree up to 2014. However, once I finished my classwork, I simply wasn't able to muster the enthusiasm required to do my research and thesis. Since time is running out (as there is an expiration on the credits that I have already taken) I have decided to get this degree done. Even at this point I may need to retake or take a couple of classes to get through, but that's not the end of the world as the many of the graduate college classes are online or evenings.
I have wanted to get back to school to finish this for a while now, but as they say, life got in the way. There were always reasons why to not start doing it. As the clock ticked down, I kept justifying my inaction by saying that I was "too busy". Perhaps I will end-up masochistically busy, but I won't be bored!
A little planning for my next adventure later this year….
I don't do New Year's resolutions. Quite honestly, it's such a nasty time of the year weather-wise here in my little patch of heaven, that it just seems a tad masochistic to try to suddenly "get in shape" or "lose ten pounds" or "declutter entire life". I feel like these types of goals are best set at some other time of the year, perhaps the summer solstice when the daylight feels never-ending.
However, I do like to get my planner in order at the beginning of January. This year I made a few changes in that area. First, I bought a larger planner.
I think that this is going to be a very busy year for me thus the increase in planning space. In addition to my usual duties as the Instruction Coordinator (I just made that title up) for the Iowa Sheep and Wool Festival, I'm also now the Vice Chairperson for the Iowa Sheep Industry Association (that title is legit).
I have plans in place to ramp-up my little woolly business. I'm not breeding this year, so no fun photos of newborn lambs this spring I'm afraid. But I am planning on a few new products to sell and, as always, lots of raw fleeces.
I have done some things that I haven't shared on here. One was that I made new feeder for the sheep. It divides the pen into two so I can have the lambs on one side (where I can keep an eye on them a little better) and the adults on the other. This also ensures that the little ones aren't getting pushed out of the food by their larger mamas and older siblings. It's not perfect, but it works okay for what I need.
I also did some knitting….
The hat is from some mystery yarn that I purchased at Heartland Fiber Co. at their Halloween party and the mitts are from that mystery wool yarn and a green mystery wool yarn from the deepest stash. The hat pattern is Barley by Tin Can Knits and the mitts are loosely based on this pattern. Yes the mitts are a bit… off. Personally I feel that this adds to their charm. Also, I used up both the yarns leftovers making these. I lost a little at yarn chicken and as a result the thumb of one hand is a tad smaller than the other. However, they get daily wear and, quite frankly, it's not like they are going to be walking the catwalk in Paris or anything like that. It's far more likely that they will get pooped-on by a chicken!
Currently I am working on an infinity scarf for my oldest niece. I let her pick out the yarn. We made an evening out of it. I took her to Hobby Lobby, JoAnn's, and Micheal's in order to pick out the one that she wanted. We also went to Chick-Fil-A for supper and hit up Culver's afterwards for dessert. She had gotten to wear a scarf that I made her mommy last year for Christmas and really wanted one of her own. This one is going to be a smidge more washable than her mama's.
Yeah, she's definitely my niece!
When I finished reading this book today, I experienced a range of emotions. First I was excited that someone had done such a fantastic job writing about the modern wool industry. Much of what is written is supremely pessimistic as it is only looking at statistics and the history of the wool industry (which, admittedly, is fairly depressing). Stephany Wilkes takes a very clear-sighted look at what is happening right now in the industry and the people in it.
Then I was little sad that the book was done. It's a very recent release, so it's written about events into 2017, so it's not like she stopped writing about her life randomly. However, I wanted more of the story!
Finally there was an emotion that I had trouble naming for a little bit but then it hit me, I was jealous. This is the book that I would love to write. Raw Material: Working Wool in the West is an extraordinarily well-written book about what it's like to actually get your hands dirty working with sheep. Stephany details what exactly it takes for wool to get from the back of a sheep into your socks. Her descriptions of shearing school were so spot-on I was laughing with relief that I wasn't the only one who felt that way. Her writing of the fear and trepidation that you have holding the shears for the first time made my stomach clench a little remembering my own experience. The whole "why the hell am I doing this?" range of emotions that first night after you have sheared and are utterly exhausted in a way that you have seldom been in your entire life. The burning and aching of muscles that personal trainers have never worked, let alone left shaking and jellied, like shearing the first time does. She looks at the obstacles to modern, local, wool production with a very clear lens. Even shepherding, which she doesn't do, is looked at honestly without excessively romanticizing it.
Stephany does have a few detours in the book. One is a chapter on natural dyes and their production. I don't begrudge this chapter in the least because chemical dyes are really toxic and it was fascinating to learn what work is being done to re-start production of natural dyes on a macro scale again.
Another detour was about carbon mitigation using sheep. She explained what is really a fairly complex scientific system in easy-to-understand language without dumbing it down. A lot of folks in certain "animal welfare" and environmental circles like to point the finger at livestock production as a major source of the worlds ills. Anyone who has actually looked into it has seen that it's primarily our dependence on fossil fuels (which make a lot of the "vegan friendly" fabrics that some groups like to promote) that are the issue and not sheep farts.
I would like every single person who does anything with wool to read this book. I don't care if you are a knitter, spinner, or outdoors-person who wears wool base layers. Read. This. Book. I don't care if you buy it or request it from your local library, go get it and read it. Stephany Wilkes has done for wool what Michael Pollan has done for food and that is she has exposed the human side of it.
Clothing, cars, spinning wheels, skin care products, chocolate, jewelry and computers. All of these things (and more) I have been accused of being "picky" about. I have an extremely love/hate thing going with shopping. If it's for yarn or wool I can spend all day doing it without a care. But if it's for pretty much anything else , I start getting really crabby, really quickly. Clothes shopping is the worst for me. Between understanding what fast fashion is doing to the environment and also to the people around the world who make it, honestly disliking wearing things that don't fit properly or are shoddily made (no matter how trendy), and just the overall experience of trying-on clothes to try to find things that are well-made and fit me, I start to get really stabby.
Because of all of this, I have had a number of things on my wishlist for a while now in the clothing department and chief among them is a wool vest. I didn't want just any wool vest (of course), I wanted one that was similarly cut to the fleece vests that I wear all winter long. I have been searching for this for about two years now, and mostly what I had found were hyper expensive "performance vests" for skiers and winter athletes that cost more than a car payment and usually didn't come in a size for me.
I had shared a post on Facebook about calling out people for trying to say that plastic-based fibers are better for people to wear than wool or leather and in the comments friends were commiserating and also admitting to wearing fleece vests. Another friend on Facebook commented that I needed to check out Stormy Kromer for wool vests made in the USA. I ordered a vest a few hours later.
When it arrived, I brought it into work to get photographs.
I've worn it a few times now. It fits exactly the way that I wanted. I'm not wearing it as daily wear however, as I get really quite dirty at my job on a pretty regular basis and I need to be able to easily wash my vest. So for now, I'm sticking with my Patagonia Better Sweater vest that I scored for a whole dollar at my favorite thrift store. I don't feel too guilty about wearing it as Patagonia has excellent environmental responsibility, makes durable clothing, and I saved it from the landfill by buying it from a locally-run thrift store that directly benefits the community.
So do check out Stormy Kromer for American-made, wool products. They don't just make vests!!!


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Q: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Filter mapping must specify either a  or a  I've created very simple REST app with next web.xml:
<context-param>
    <param-name>resteasy.scan</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>

<listener>
    <listener-class>org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.ResteasyBootstrap</listener-class>
</listener>

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

I'm using servlet 3.0 specification and Tomcat 7.0.23. Unfortunately it fails all time:
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Filter mapping must specify either a <url-pattern> or a <servlet-name>
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.validateFilterMap(StandardContext.java:2995)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.addFilterMap(StandardContext.java:2954)

I don't imagine where problem is... I don't use filters in my code, how can I fix it?

A: This is related to RESTEasy issue 577. To fix this, you need to add metadata-complete="true" to the <web-app> root declaration of your /WEB-INF/web.xml.
<web-app
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
    version="3.0" metadata-complete="true">

    <!-- Config here. -->

</web-app>

This way Tomcat will assume that the /WEB-INF/web.xml is complete and won't scan JARs for additional metadata information in web.xml fragments which in case of RESTEasy apparently contain incorrectly/incompletely declared filters.

A: Of course, adding 'metadata-complete="true"' will block any other jars from contributing to web.xml, including RichFaces and Seam. It is better to exclude the offending JAR file from your deployment. In my case, it was the async-http-servlet-3.0-2.3.3.Final.jar who offended.

A: It's a bug in Tomcat 7 (version < 7.0.28), see that reply to a similar question, and the linked Tomcat 7 bugzilla ticket.

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Cambridge, ON – March 7, 2019 – Cowan Insurance Group, a leading Canadian insurance brokerage and consulting firm, was recognized for the seventh consecutive year by the prestigious Canada's Best Managed Companies program, earning Platinum Club status.
Now in its 26th year, Canada's Best Managed Companies is one of the country's leading business awards programs recognizing Canadian-owned and managed companies for innovative, world-class business practices.
"Best Managed Platinum winners have exceptional insights and knowledge into business management practices. They are an inspiration and really take their game to a new level," Peter Brown, Partner. Deloitte Private and Co-Leader, Canada's Best Managed Companies Program.
Cowan has proven itself as a market leader through its commitment to innovation and excellence and a client-centric approach to doing business in the commercial and personal insurance, group benefits and wealth management space.
Winners will be honoured at the annual Canada's Best Managed Companies gala in Toronto on April 17, 2019.


Professor Dr. Fritz Sennheiser (pictured), founder of Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG and a pioneer in the field of electroacoustics, celebrated his 95th birthday on May 9. In June 1945, Sennheiser founded his "Laboratorium Wennebostel" with a staff of just seven employees in an abandoned laboratory of Hanover's Technical University. Today, more than 1,650 people work for Sennheiser, and the company now has production sites in Germany, Ireland and the U.S.
The family-owned company's innovations included the shotgun microphone in the 1950s, open-back headphones in the 1960s, infrared transmission technology in the 1970s and multichannel wireless technology in the early 1980s. In 1982, Fritz Sennheiser handed the management of the company over to his son, Professor Dr. Jörg Sennheiser, who is today chairman of the supervisory board.


Remember MySpace? Rafter Roberts and Simon Lord sure do—they owe their new band to it. Well, sort of; this is a band that would've happened regardless, a collaboration constellationally fated, a thing bound to be born, and born to be fun. Earlier this year, former Simian member Lord was combing the interwebs for collaboration ideas. A click lead to a click which lead to a click onto a Rafter video and then a MySpace message was blasted off from Lord in London to Roberts in California. This "hella MySpace hookup," as says Roberts, has blossomed into a full-length album, Eponymous. To best understand the duo's debut, it's necessary to look at the nature of the collaboration: The distorted, garage-y, electro backing music was recorded on a 4-track tape machine at Roberts' studio. Next, Roberts sent the tracks to Lord, who recorded vocals and mailed 'em on back. The duality of these dancy art-pop jams, Roberts' rough and grimy (yet complexly arranged) analog backing tracks paired with Lord's clean, digitally-recorded vocals, gives the work a tricky kind of depth that is immediately engaging and, above all else, FUN. Eponymous will be released —— on Asthmatic Kitty Records.


With the commercialization and secularization of Christmas growing year by year, the real reason for Christmas gets lost in the shuffle. The Christmas sermon outlines in Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Christmas Sermons brings the focus back squarely on Jesus Christ.
Inside, you'll find 21 complete Christmas sermon outlines. There's also a 3 sermon series, "Xmas: What's Missing in Your Christmas?", addressing our loss of all that makes Christmas special. And there's a unique "Joseph Monologue", giving a first person account from Joseph's perspective.
Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Christmas Sermons will help the busy pastor turn the church's eye back to Jesus this Christmas season.


When you want to send flowers to someone special, there is no better place to turn to than Johnson Floral and Décor—your Idaho florist. We are a flower shop that carries all manner of floral designs to celebrate any special event or to just brighten someone's day. We have something for everyone, and additionally, we always go the extra mile to look for the latest floral design styles and techniques.
Our flowers are of the highest quality and professionally handled, to ensure they are always fresh and beautiful. With us, you can always have beautiful flowers in your home, office, or as a gift to someone special. We also offer seasonal flowers during their peak time of the year.
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On deadly ground: Duterte brings Seagal to rally troops in Jolo
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte brought in a special guest on Friday to rally troops battling Islamic State followers in the south — US action hero Steven Seagal.
The star of 80s and 90s hits like "Hard to Kill" and "Under Siege" joined Duterte in a visit to an army camp on the island of Jolo.
He was there to impart martial wisdom to soldiers fighting the feared Abu Sayyaf, a band of Muslim extremists, some of whose members have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
"I know you guys put your life on the line every day. I myself have done and will do the same thing so I understand this is serious business," he told the soldiers, who have been battling Abu Sayyaf for decades.
The extremist group has been blamed for some of the worst terror attacks in the country's history including mass kidnappings and deadly bombings.
Some of its members took part in the five-month battle that devastated the southern city of Marawi this year.
"I believe there is a formula that can help the armed forces, the police, the intelligence network to combat this very, very well," Seagal said.
"I am looking forward to discussing these things with President Duterte at a later time," he added.
Although his military background outside Hollywood is questionable, Seagal lectured the troops on how they would have to steel themselves for a lengthy war of attrition.
"I hope I can be involved with all of you in this war against all of these evil things," he said.
A beaming Duterte praised Seagal, telling the troops "he is a soldier so he is on the same wavelength with you when he talks".
Seagal, whose recent career has largely consisted of direct-to-video movies, apparently bonded with fellow tough-guy Duterte when they met in Manila in October.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has raised more than $25 million to defend his job, drawing heavily from prominent GOP players outside the state and dwarfing the amounts raised by his Democratic challengers.
Other groups are contributing millions more in advertising. And Walker has leading Republicans campaigning for him, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
The governor's fundraising firepower and his broad support among the GOP elite illustrate the challenge facing his opponents. The Democrats who swarmed the state Capitol last year to protest Walker's assault on public unions now have only a month before a historic recall election to counterpunch Republicans who have rallied strongly behind their Wisconsin superstar.
In a sign of how easy it's been for Walker to raise money, his top eight donors accounted for $1.5 million. The two Democratic front-runners raised $1.8 million combined. An unprecedented amount of cash — about two-thirds of Walker's campaign haul in the last report — came from outside the state.
"That's a level of outside influence we've never seen before," said Mike McCabe, executive director of the government-watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. "He's been all over the country raising money."
Democratic challenger Kathleen Falk, a former Dane County executive, got plenty of out-of-state support as well. Of the $977,000 she raised between Jan. 1 and last week, nearly $449,000, or 45 percent, came from outside Wisconsin. Another $25,000 came from donors who listed no state in their address.
Her chief rival in the Democratic primary, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, raised $831,500 during that same span. Eleven percent, or $92,600, came from out-of-state.
Democrats are counting on an electorate that they say is every bit as energized now as when massive crowds of demonstrators descended on Madison last year in response to Walker's effort to end collective-bargaining rights for most public employees.
Walker, who ultimately prevailed in the confrontation, said he acted to help the state deal with its budget deficit. But Democrats saw the changes as an all-out attack on unions, one of their key constituencies.
Unions and others had little trouble gathering more than 900,000 signatures to authorize a recall election for Walker. However, Walker took advantage of a quirk in state law to raise $13.1 million between Jan. 18 and last week.
State law forbids individuals from donating a total of more than $10,000 in a given year, unless the money goes to a recall campaign during the time when the campaign can accept unlimited donations. For Walker, that window lasted nearly five months.
Falk, Barrett and two other Democrats square off in a primary May 8. The winner takes on Walker in the June 5 recall election.
No one on the Democratic side has star power comparable to Walker's status in the GOP. And Democrats shouldn't expect any help from President Barack Obama. Aides to Obama's campaign said the president was not scheduled to campaign in Wisconsin ahead of the recall vote.
Sachin Chheda, a Democratic strategist who hasn't endorsed any candidate, said Democrats are not worried about matching Walker's spending.
"The question is not whether they have as much as Walker. It's do they have enough to get their message out," Chheda said. "I think they do." Walker defeated Barrett in 2010 by 5 percentage points. A poll released just days before Barrett got into the race this year showed him leading Falk 36 percent to 29 percent among surveyed voters, with 17 percent undecided. Both Democrats were about even with Walker.
The party that wins the recall election will likely be the one that's more successful at getting out the vote. Money might not have as much sway in this election because most voters seem polarized, with strong feelings for or against Walker that aren't likely to be influenced by TV ads.
That doesn't mean there won't be plenty of commercials. Outside group have already been spending millions on both sides, in about even amounts, McCabe said.
"It looks to me like there will be rough parity in spending between the parties," he said. "But there's no way on earth any (Democratic) candidate is going to close the gap" in personal fundraising given Walker's commanding financial advantage.
Wisconsin for Falk has spent more than $4 million on advertising, and an independent group called Greater Wisconsin has spent several million dollars, McCabe said.
On the Republican side, Americans for Prosperity has given more than $3 million and the Republican Governors Association more than $1 million. A group called Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce has spent about $2 million, he said.
The numbers are vague because groups don't always have to report their full spending, he noted. Labor groups including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the nation's largest public-employee union, have been contributing money to Greater Wisconsin. The groups say their edge is with activists on the ground who are knocking on doors and coordinating get-out-the-vote efforts.
"The one thing unions are very experienced in is organizing in local communities," said Jeff Zack of the International Association of Firefighters, which is organizing members in Wisconsin and began airing advertisements Tuesday.
Likewise, AFSCME has opened 17 regional offices in Wisconsin to help organize its members. Walker has sought help from fellow rising Republican stars such as Christie, who joined him Tuesday on the campaign trail. The arrangement helps Walker raise money and gives visitors an opportunity to burnish their conservative credentials. — — — Beaumont reported from Des Moines, Iowa. Associated Press Writer Todd Richmond in Madison, Wis., and Troy Thibodeaux in New Orleans contributed to this report.